Afternoon Tea with The Readers () Simon and Thomas sit down to a slap up afternoon with sandwiches, cake and scones with jam and clotted cream. They talk about Thomas’ holiday and Africa, what has been going on with Simon and the Costa’s, have a general chit chat and then answer some lovely questions from some of our lovely listeners.

Books Discussed on the Show() Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, Howard’s End by E.M. Forster, How To Be Both by Ali Smith, The Octopus by Frank Nors, Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope, Eric Ambler, Monica Dickens, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, On The Beach by Nevil Shute, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, C J Sansom’s books, The Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Christo, The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas, Moonstone and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo, Timeleone Vita Come Home by Dan Rhodes, Nutshell by Ian McEwan, The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, Buriel Rites and The Good People by Hannah Kent, See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt, The Dry by Jane Harper, Ulysses by James Joyce, Anna Karenina and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Next time on the Readers() Simon and Thomas will be reunited in two weeks when they will be back with more book based banter.